F1车手展望首次驶上“疯狂”的马德里赛道赛道
F1车手准备周五首次驾驶“吓人”且“疯狂”的马德里赛道赛道，预计它将成为本赛季“最复杂”的赛道。
F1车手们正准备在周五首次驾驶“吓人”且“疯狂”的马德里赛道赛道，预计它将成为本赛季“最复杂”的赛道。
所有F1车手都已经在虚拟世界中完成了许多圈，为三年来第一条全新赛道做准备，但周四让他们近距离看到了赛道在现实世界中的样子。
以下是车手们的期望，从最艰难的弯道到是否错失了改善超车的机会。
两周前在该赛道进行的为期两天的F3测试产生了19次红旗，提高了人们对疯狂周末的期望，威廉姆斯车队负责人James Vowles称其为“杀死赛车的赛道”。
“当我听说F3中有20[19]次红旗时，我有点惊讶。然后在我驾驶模拟器后，我惊讶于只有20[19]次红旗，”梅赛德斯车手拉塞尔打趣道。
“这是一条疯狂的赛道。我会说，它可以说是整个赛历中最危险的赛道。”
赛道上布满了棘手的弯道、盲区出口和靠近的墙壁，几乎没有犯错的空间。博托莱托将马德里赛道的一圈描述为“精神上令人疲惫”。
刚走完赛道的阿尔本表示，“很多墙壁，很多高速弯道，很多盲弯给我一种澳门的氛围，但更像是为F1赛道准备的”。
“有些弯道的盲区有点令人担忧，比如如果有一辆车停在弯道的另一侧，我希望他们在VSC[虚拟安全车]和红旗方面能迅速行动，”他补充道。
“不可避免的是，这个周末会有一些撞车事故。”
加斯利对此表示赞同，他说：“我肯定会把赌注押在红旗上”，他预计会有相当“混乱的周末”和事故。
Albon表示，他“相当担心”在倾斜的La Monumental弯道排位赛中赛车将如何让路，考虑到你通过那里的线路和盲区出口。
“我认为没有正确的位置可以放置赛车，”Albon在谈到La Monumental时说。“如果你把车放在顶部，实际上我认为线路会漂移到赛道中间，然后你再回来。
“所以，你不在一个完美的地方。这让我有点想起，你还记得Fernando和Esteban在巴西3号弯的那次撞车吗[2023年冲刺排位赛]？
“你会遇到脏空气，脏空气会产生连锁反应。”
在模拟器运行后，凯迪拉克车手Sergio Perez表示，这是“一条真正的赛道。有点吓人。让我有点想起吉达”。队友Valtteri Bottas将其描述为吉达和巴库的混合体，而其他人则将其比作摩纳哥。
哈斯车手奥康称其为“疯狂的赛道”，需要在风险与回报之间做出许多权衡，而冠军领跑者安东内利表示，这对车手和工程师来说都是今年“最复杂”的赛道。
“从驾驶方面来说，你有各种各样的弯道。你有减速弯、快速弯、倾斜弯、中速弯，还有刹车——你有很多直线刹车，但也有[很多]刹车时你实际上仍在转弯，”Antonelli说。
“17号弯是一个当你踩刹车时，你仍在转弯，然后你拉直赛车的弯道。所以这是一条非常棘手的赛道，非常具有挑战性，但同时非常令人兴奋，零犯错空间。
“在工程方面也很复杂，因为找到一个对整个单圈都是良好妥协的调校并不容易。
“你可以找到一个在减速弯中帮助你、当你需要切路肩时的调校，或者一个在快速弯中帮助你的调校，但要找到一个在路肩上好、在改变方向时好、在快速弯中好的调校，将会很困难。”
人们预计周六的排位赛将非常激烈，但车手们对周日的比赛质量表示了新的担忧。
“超车会很困难。在我看来，会更接近新加坡，”Perez的观点。
不过，Gasly将其视为一个机会。他期待探索超车机会，因为车手们将不得不“在比赛日即兴发挥和创造，看看什么是可能的。
“我们将是这些首次动作的创造者。”
曾希望车手们采取不同线路进入La Monumental弯道会创造超车机会，但Albon并不那么确定。
“我担心比赛中的轮胎碎屑。所以除了试图找到干净空气并试图在倾斜弯道上走高线外，你还要在比赛后期应对轮胎碎屑，所以你必须小心，”Albon说。
“我个人认为你不能走那么多线路。赛道相当狭窄，当你拥有干净空气和空间时情况不同，而如果你有一点打滑，你就会立即撞墙。
“车手们不太愿意把车开到倾斜弯道的顶部并承担走高速线的风险。我希望我被证明是错的，但我认为赛道的那个部分不会提供那么多超车机会。”
哈斯车手Ollie Bearman觉得马德里赛道的布局错失了一个机会。
“在某种程度上这是一种遗憾，因为我认为布局还可以，但赛道有一些特性自然阻碍了超车，”Bearman说。
“其中之一是5号弯的刹车，它是弯曲的——而那是真正的超车机会。那种弯曲刹车消除了任何不同线路和从内侧发送的可能性。
“所以这是一种遗憾，也许有点疏忽，但这意味着我们将完全专注于排位赛。”
5/6号减速弯是F3测试中许多事故的发生地，前面有两个全油门弯道，这也是赛道上仅有的两个直线模式区域之一。
所以进入那个减速弯，以及第一个减速弯，是最合乎逻辑的超车机会。
但是，正如Bearman所说，进入减速弯的入口是弯曲且狭窄的，所以超车真的必须在刹车区之前完成。
Albon也有同样的挫败感，他认为周日的任何超车都将由能量管理差异决定，而不是刹车差异。
“我希望他们在刹车区做了一些不同的东西，不要让它们太倾斜，”Albon说。
“你有很多组合弯道，仅仅考虑周日的超车，感觉很容易防守。你只需把车放在赛道中间，就不会有车能超过你。
“这只是意味着这将是更多的部署超车而不是刹车超车。”
英文原文
Formula 1 drivers are bracing to drive the "scary" and "crazy" Madring circuit for the first time on Friday, with expectations that it will be the "most complicated" track of the year.
All F1 drivers have completed many laps in the virtual world to prepare for the first brand-new track in three years, but Thursday gave them their up-close look at how the circuit has come together in the real-world.
Here’s what the drivers are expecting, from the toughest corners to whether there was a missed opportunity to improve overtaking.
A two-day Formula 3 test at the circuit produced 19 red flags two weeks ago, raising expectations of a frenetic weekend, with Williams team principal James Vowles calling it "a track that kills cars".
"When I heard about the 20 [19] red flags in F3, I was a bit surprised. And then after I drove on the sim, I was surprised there was only 20 [19] red flags," quipped Mercedes driver George Russell.
"It's a crazy circuit. I would put it, arguably, as the most risky circuit of the whole calendar."
The circuit is littered with tricky corners, blind exits and close walls that leave very little room for error. "Mentally exhausting" is how Gabriel Bortoleto described a lap of the Madring.
Fresh from walking the track, Alex Albon said there's "a lot of walls, a lot of high-speed corners, a lot of blind corners gives me vibes of Macau, but more for an F1 track".
"A little bit concerning the blind spots in some of the corners, like if there is a car that's stopped on the other side of the corner, I hope they're just quick on the VSCs [virtual safety cars] and the red flags," he added.
"Inevitably, there are going to be a few crashes this weekend."
Pierre Gasly echoed that, saying, "I'll put my money on the red flag, that's for sure", and he expects quite a "disrupted weekend" with accidents.
Albon said he is "quite concerned" about where cars will get out of the way in qualifying at the banked La Monumental corner, given the line you take through there and the blind exit.
"I don't think there's a correct place you can position the car," Albon said of La Monumental. “If you put the car up top, actually I think the line is kind of drift up to the middle of the track and then you come back again.
"So, you're not in a perfect place. It reminds me a little bit of, do you remember Fernando and Esteban in Brazil at Turn 3, where they had that crash [in sprint qualifying in 2023]?
"You can get dirty air and the dirty air can create the knock-on effect."
After his simulator running, Cadillac driver Sergio Perez said it was "a proper track. It's a bit scary. It reminds me a bit of Jeddah". Team-mate Valtteri Bottas described it as a mix between Jeddah and Baku, while others have compared it to Monaco.
Haas driver Esteban Ocon called it a "crazy circuit" with so much risk versus reward trade-offs to make, while championship leader Kimi Antonelli said it's the "most complicated" track of the year for both drivers and engineers.
"Driving-wise, you've got all kinds of corners. You've got chicanes, fast corners, banked, medium-speed, also braking - you've got a lot of straight-line braking, but [also] a lot of braking where you're actually still turning," Antonelli said.
"Turn 17 is a corner where, when you hit the brake, you're still turning, and then you straighten the car. So it's a very tricky track, very challenging, but very exciting at the same time with zero margin of mistake.
"It's also complicated on the engineering side because finding a set-up that is a good compromise for the whole lap is not going to be easy.
"You can find a set-up that helps you in the chicanes, when you need to cut kerbs, or a set-up that helps you in the fast corners, but to find a set-up that is good over kerbs, good on changing direction, good on fast corners, is going to be difficult."
There are expectations for a knife-edge qualifying on Saturday, but drivers have expressed fresh concerns about the quality of racing on Sunday.
"Overtaking will be hard. It's going to be, in my mind, closer to Singapore," was Perez's view.
Gasly saw it as an opportunity, though. He was relishing exploring the overtaking opportunities, as drivers will have to "improvise and be creative on race day and see what's possible.
"We'll be the creators of these first moves."
There had been hopes that drivers taking different lines into the La Monumental corner would create an overtaking opportunity, but Albon isn’t so sure.
"I worry about the marbles in the race. So on top of trying to find clean air and trying to go up high on the banking, you'll have marbles to contend with as well later into the race, so you've got to be careful with that," Albon said.
"I personally don't think you can do that many lines. The track's quite narrow and it's different when you have clean air and there's space, whereas if you have a little snap you're into the wall immediately.
"Drivers aren't as willing to stick it up to the top of the banking and take the risk of running a high line. I hope I'm proved wrong, but I think that part of the track is not going to offer that much overtaking."
Haas driver Ollie Bearman felt like an opportunity was missed with the layout of the Madring.
"It's a shame in a way because I think the layout is OK, but there are some features of the circuit which naturally deter overtaking," Bearman said.
"One of them is the braking for Turn 5, which is curved - and that's the real overtaking opportunity. That kind of curved braking takes away any possibility of different lines and sending one up the inside.
"So that's a shame and maybe a bit of an oversight, but it means that we're going to be fully focused on qualifying."
The Turn 5/6 chicane, the site of many accidents in the F3 test, is preceded by two flat-out kinks, which also feature one of only two straight mode zones on the circuit.
So into that chicane, along with the first chicane, is the most logical overtaking opportunity.
But, as Bearman said, the entry to the chicane is curved and tight, so the overtakes will really have to be completed before the braking zone.
Albon shares his frustration, believing any overtakes on Sunday will be decided by energy management differences rather than braking differences.
"I wish they did something a bit different with the braking zones and not having them too much angled," Albon said.
"You've got a lot of combined corners which, just thinking of overtaking on Sunday, it feels like it's quite easy to defend. You just put the car in the middle of the track and you're not going to get a car that's going to go past you.
"That just means that it will be more of a deployment overtake than a braking overtake."
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